Tuthill, John L. ( Lancaster, OH)

John L Tuthill*

Bookbinder and Blank Book Manufacturer

Lancaster

Ohio (1827)1.

Tuthill was born in Otsego County N.Y. 1808, learned bookbinding in New
York. Wiseman states that he learned bookbinding in N.Y in 1827 and moved to
Lancaster in 1827??. He opened up a bindery with a Mr Ackley (could this be
Richard Ackley who was known to be in N.Y. in 1800) . Charles Milton Lewis
Wiseman, Centennial History of Lancaster, Ohio, pg. 288

sold to Hopkins & Symonds in 1841 but continued to work as a bookbinder
until 1847 when appointed to clerk in the war department ibid